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STEVEN TYLER Newest American Idol Judge brings show to new popularity levels

TV Talk show host and comedienne, Ellen DeGeneres did not last long as a judge for American Idol. The show went through some major changes this year as Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler joined the crew of American Idol Judges for 2011

AMERICAN IDOL NEW SEASON

AMERICAN IDOL and other reality TV shows are rapidly becoming king of the tube. Bored with the mundane predicatable sitcoms, the modern TV Viewer is looking for something different. AMERICAN IDOL definately fits the bill. Filled with fresh new and unknown talent, AMERICAN IDOL teases the viewer and taunts them to come back out of a necessity to knwo the results.
For those unable to watch the show religiously, or unwilling to give up their life for a quick pleasure, HTBW is here for you. This blog is all about AMERICAN IDOL. Stay tuned for results, news and inside information like no other single site can provide.

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Thursday, March 19, 2009

CARRIE UNDERWOOD JOINS RANDY TRAVIS ON THE AMERICAN IDOL STAGE FOR A DUET PERFORMANCE

When Jesse Tack's boss came to him in January and asked him to try and blend Carrie Underwood's cover of Randy Travis' 1988 hit "I Told You So" — from her 2007 Carnival Ride album — with the original, Tack never imagined that his creation would lead to an "American Idol" moment.

But there it was Wednesday night (March 18) on the "Idol" stage, where Underwood and Travis got together for the live debut of the recently recorded, official version of the duet. And Tack couldn't have been prouder.






Soon after Underwood's single version of "I Told You So" dropped in early January, Tack, 26, who works the 7 p.m.-to-midnight shift at Cincinnati country station WUBE-FM (B105.1), got a request from his program director to work on a mash-up. Six hours later, Tack emerged with a blend of the two songs that was seamless, combining Travis' low-register vocals to Underwood's higher voice on the chorus.

The song was an instant hit on the station when it debuted on January 14, and when country music consultant Jaye Albright got her hands on it, she sent it out to 75 other stations she works with. "After I put it together in the studio, within five seconds I thought, 'This is going to be something special,' " said the Iowa-born Tack, whose identical-twin brother, Joey Tack, is a hip-hop radio DJ in Tennessee.

The phones at 'UBE lit up instantly. Tack said he began getting calls from all over the country every night from listeners and DJs praising his work and asking for copies. To date, the YouTube video he created has gotten nearly 100,000 views, but the biggest compliment was when Tack found out the country superstars would be performing the song on "Idol" and had recorded an official version.






He hasn't heard from either artist so far about his grassroots experiment, but Tack can't help but feel like he helped get the ball rolling. "My hope was that they would record it as a duet, and they have," he said on Tuesday. Tack said he was going to be stuck at work when the show aired, but he would definitely take a break to tune in and that he'd be recording it at home, where he suspected he would probably watch it a "couple hundred" times.

"There will be a bit part of me thinking, 'C'mon, they wouldn't have done this because of some little station in Cincinnati doing a version,' " he said. "But then I'll think back to the hundreds and hundreds of e-mails I've gotten, and I have to think that some of those stations playing it have to have talked to the labels and asked about an official remix or duet.







"It will be unbelievable," Tack said of seeing the his outlaw creation's official spawn, which will be made available for download right after the show and debut on country radio next week. "I'll have to wonder if I had not put that together, would they be singing it onstage?"

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

AMERICAN IDOL FIXED?

Is it possible the great FOX show American Idol could be fixed? According to reports the final four have already been chosen despite there being 13 idols left. One of the show's staffer's reportedly has gone around telling anyone she can of who is to be entering despite the singing of the final 13 to begin.

According to NY Daily News, "One of the hit show's staffers is running around telling anyone who'll listen that the team of producers and judges has already picked the final four contestants — despite the fact that 11 kids are still battling to be the latest pop star."

So who are the final four you ask? The female American Idol staffer is proclaiming it will be Danny Gokey, Lil Rounds, Adam Lambert, and Alexis Grace according to NY Daily News. The female staffer said that those contestants WILL be the people in the final four. FOX has yet to comment and people are pretty upset right now. Although they have not yet named the woman who said this and her position, everything should be taken with a grain of salt.

In related news, AUTO VOTE SOFTWARE predicts AMERICAN IDOL RESULTS

Monday, March 16, 2009

AMERICAN IDOL AUTO VOTE PROGRAMS

It is quite obvious the whole voting set-up on American Idol is screwed up. First there was the whole regional voting which brought certain talentless hicks to the top, purely based on their geographic location. After that there was rumours of race based voting and now we have autodialer voting programs.

These programs use your computers modem to automatically dial a certain idol number and vote for that idol. The program also logs all the dialing attempts and reports them back to their server. At this point, fans of Danny Gokey seem to be the ones using the program the most. Soooo, if you are a fan of someone else, you really need to vote for them if you want them to actually win.






Other than that, American Idol should really institute either a limit on votes from each household or some sort of check system which prompts the caller for some kind of touch tone feedback confirming they are in fact a human... not an autodialer.

Thursday, March 12, 2009

KELLY CLARKSON AMERICAN IDOL PERFORMANCE Sparks RUMOURS

It's the Internet buzz phrase of the day: Is KELLY CLARKSON PREGNANT?

KELLY CLARKSON, the original "American Idol" winner returned to the Fox stage last night to perform her latest single "My Life Would Suck Without You" before a panel of her former judges: Simon Cowell, Randy Jackson and Paula Abdul.





The Grammy-winning KELLY CLARKSON - clad in a form-fitting black mini-dress, knee-high black boots, tights and a shimmery sequined shrug - rocked out the song from her new album "All I Ever Wanted" and strode confidently across the stage.

KELLY CLARKSON looked a bit curvier than she did at the Grammy awards in February, and immediately the KELLY CLARKSON PREGNANT rumors started to fly.

But a KELLY CLARKSON rep at her record label RCA - a division of Sony Music - tells the Daily News the buzz is dead wrong: "She is not pregnant."






KELLY CLARKSON chatted with host Ryan Seacrest on stage, who asked if her new song was written with a special someone in mind - to which said no, adding she is not currently in a relationship.

But that didn't stop the fans from speculating.

KELLY CLARKSON wowed the "Idol" fans at Wednesday night's results show, performing after hip-hop star Kanye West.

Asked by Seacrest how it felt to return to her old stomping grounds, KELLY CLARKSON said, "I feel like I'm going to be judged."






If Abdul's dancing along to her tune was any indication, she would have greenlighted KELLY CLARKSON to the next round.

Friday, March 6, 2009

AMERICAN IDOL WILD CARD SHOW

AMERICAN IDOL producers vowed to shake things up this year, and that's just what they did Thursday night during the revived wild-card round. The eight contestants who got a lifeline from the judges at the end of Wednesday night's show thought they were fighting for the final three spots in the top 12, but in a surprise reveal at the end of last night's show they found out that for the first time in "Idol" history the top 12 would actually be a top 13.

That was good news for Jasmine Murray, Megan Joy Corkrey, Matt Giraud and Anoop Desai, all of whom got to take a seat after performing one more time for the AMERICAN IDOL judges, who said that the choice between Giraud and Desai was so hard that they just went with both.

The four AMERICAN IDOL WILD-CARD picks join the nine audience-chosen finalists — Danny Gokey, Alexis Grace, Michael Sarver, Kris Allen, Allison Iraheta, Adam Lambert, Scott MacIntyre, Jorge Nuñez and Lil Rounds — when the finals begin next week, with shows that will feature guest spots from Kanye West and season-one AMERICAN IDOL superstar Kelly Clarkson.






Before the AMERICAN IDOL judges made their decision, they put all the singers through the wringer one more time. First up was Minnesotan Jesse Langseth, who sang Rufus and Chaka Khan's funk classic, "Tell Me Something Good," while wearing a dangerously short, shiny black mini-dress and giving the sexy tune a slow grind feel that split the judges.

Kara DioGuardi liked her "swagger," and Paula Abdul was impressed with her tenacity and determination. But Simon Cowell thought it was a bit indulgent, even if he was glad the panel had made the last-second choice to giver her another shot.

Dueling-piano player Giraud knew he had to bring the blues, so he chose the Jackson 5 version of Smokey Robinson's "Who's Lovin' You," rocking a fedora and pouring all his blue-eyed soul into the tune while throwing in a spin and some gospel adlibs. Kara loved the bluesy, soulful return of the singer they fell in love with. Paula said Giraud picked the perfect song. Simon called it "a billion times better" than Giraud's last performance, but not before turning the dagger a bit and trashing Giraud's outfit and resemblance to gray-haired season five "Idol" winner Taylor Hicks.

Utah's MEGAN CORKREY picked a jammer, "Black Horse & the Cherry Tree" by KT Tunstall, again busting out her signature hip-swiveling dance and throwing some jazz grit into the acoustic pop tune. The judge's were unanimous in their love for the model-pretty tattooed mom, and all agreed that MEGAN CORKREY has the contemporary look and sound the karaoke show desperately needs.

Von Smith, 22, who was eliminated just 24 hours earlier, picked the Elton John weeper "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word," leaning hard on his feathery falsetto but still looking a bit nervous as he stared intently into the camera. Simon said it was boring and ordinary. Kara said he got too serious and dark, sealing his fate once again.






Another AMERICAN IDOL judge favorite, 16-year-old Murray, went the big ballad route, taking on Christina Aguilera's "Reflection" with a powerful, soaring vocal that showed her confidence and range. It paid off in a big way, as Simon gushed about her "brave" choice of song, and Kara marveled at the "really big voice" she'd never noticed before.

It's been a few weeks since we saw Ricky Braddy, but the 26-year-old North Carolina native gave it another shot by biting into Steve Wonder's "Superstition." The latest male "Idol" to rock a somewhat lame faux-hawk, he wore skin-tight black jeans, a white shirt, black tie and gray vest, as he bounced all over the stage. His vocals also jumped all over the place. The judges all praised his energy and personality, but Simon said that in the end, it was all a bit "clumsy" and karaoke.






One of this season's most controversial AMERICAN IDOL contestants, Tatiana Del Toro, 24, the Puerto Rican weeper who all of a sudden developed a much thicker accent Thursday night, again chose the fittingly dramatic warhorse, Whitney Houston's "Saving All My Love for You." Wearing a shimmering black-and-silver cocktail dress, Del Toro came out a bit tentative at first but got stronger as the tune went on and proved, despite all the distractions, why she was back in the competition.

The AMERICAN IDOL judge's questioned the sudden accent — Del Toro said it creeps back when she's "emotional" — as well as her decision to sing the same song for the second time in a row. That led to a tense, loopy back-and-forth with Simon about song choice that likely sealed the judge's decision.

Up last was Chapel Hill, North Carolina's Desai, who was out to prove that "Noop Dogg" was back by busting out Bobby Brown's "My Prerogative." He worked the mike, popped his collar, brought some serious attitude and got the crowd on their feet, even if his vocals were a bit shaky and the backup singers ended up doing too much heavy lifting. Simon compared him to "an enthusiastic dog." The judge also said that while he wasn't the best singer, people clearly liked him, and he might offer the cast of the show some personality. (Has Simon ever referred to the singers as "the cast" before?)

Kara said he made her want to dance, and she's not one to dance. Paula actually did get up and dance during his performance, which she loved. When the judges told Desai he was through, he covered his face in shock, then gave a shout out to his college town of Chapel Hill, which was in the news because of a memorial service for University of North Carolina Student Body President Eve Carson, who was murdered a year ago Thursday.

AMERICAN IDOL settles into a regular schedule next Tuesday, when the top 13 perform during a two-hour show. They face elimination the next night (March 11), when Clarkson will sing her new hit, "My Life Would Suck Without You" and West will perform "Heartless."